by Right to Quiet | Mar 17, 2022 | News and Events
Right to Quiet is planning several initiatives for International Noise Awareness Day (INAD) on April 27, 2022. We are also celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Society. 1. Transit Shelter Advertising We have been approved for the City of Vancouver Transit Shelter...
by Right to Quiet | Mar 2, 2022 | News and Events
“The electrical grid in British Columbia is over 92% renewable energy, so switching to a heat pump from fossil-fuel systems can significantly reduce a home’s carbon emissions” The City of Vancouver Green Buildings Team is proposing a Climate Emergency: Home...
by Right to Quiet | Aug 27, 2021 | News and Events
By Jeanine Botta An article was posted in LinkedIn with the title Village church bells silenced after single complaint they are ‘too noisy.’ Beneath the LinkedIn post were comments, all critical of the complainer, who’d lodged the first and only complaint about the...
by Right to Quiet | Aug 27, 2021 | News and Events
The 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America will be held Monday through Friday, November 29 through December 3 at the Hyatt Regency Seattle. To register or view the meeting program, visit the ASA website.
by Right to Quiet | Aug 27, 2021 | News and Events
Saanich environmentalist and community organizer Teale Phelps Bondaroff has been working on a campaign petitioning the Saanich Council to ban gas-powered leaf blowers, to create a recycling program to deal with obsolete landscaping machinery, and to regulate use of...
by Right to Quiet | Aug 27, 2021 | News and Events
In July 2020, the Vancouver Park Board Commissioners approved the designation of 22 parks, including the quiet more secluded old grove of trees at Kits Beach and the Vanier Park Duck Pond, as legal drinking zones as part of the “Alcohol in our Parks Pilot Program.”...
